¹Zhang Yuanyuan,²Ma Mengqi,³Doris Padmini Selvaratnam

^1,2,3Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i6-40

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ABSTRACT

The challenges brought by global aging make countries begin to pay attention to and pay attention to the role of deferred retirement initiatives. At present, China's social medical insurance system has not been reformed, and the retirement age policy formulated in the 1950s obviously does not meet the needs of China's economic development. China is in urgent need of a new delayed retirement policy. In this paper, using 2014 CLHLS data, the study found that working age affects the health of the elderly, and there is a negative correlation between age and health. According to the findings, the social medical insurance system has a favourable impact on the health of the elderly, and there is no direct evidence that it can reduce the mortality rate. The social health insurance system and the proposal to postpone retirement interact with one another.

KEYWORDS:

Delayed Retirement, Social health insurance, Elderly people, Health, Delayed retirement proposal

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